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Post by tartanphantom on Mar 14, 2022 16:02:49 GMT -5
Have any of the Americans on here (particularly those living in the south) heard of an old fashioned slang term "hooked Adams"? It's used as in, "we really hooked Adams", which seems to mean when two people who've not met before get on really well. I've been watching a number of 90s interviews with author and Civil War historian Shelby Foote, and I've heard him use the expression a few times now. Foote was born in Greenville, Mississippi in the early 20th century, which is why I assume it's an old southern phrase. A Google search has brought up nothing though. Confessor, I'll bet what you probably heard was really "hooked atoms." It's a saying that's derived form a French phrase, and loosely translated it means to have great chemistry with someone, be on the same wavelength, etc.
I'd like to think that British folks could understand most forms of English, but then again I've been to the East End of London and also to Birmingham, and those experiences totally ruin my theory... (I'm jesting, Confessor !)
In a similar fashion, drop a native Parisian off the back of a truck in the middle of the Cajun region of Louisiana, and linguistically he'll be as lost as a little lamb. Cajun French is like its own language due to the use of so many borrowed Spanish and English words.
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Post by Confessor on Mar 14, 2022 20:31:39 GMT -5
Confessor, I'll bet what you probably heard was really "hooked atoms." It's a saying that's derived form a French phrase, and loosely translated it means to have great chemistry with someone, be on the same wavelength, etc. Bingo! A quick Google search seems to prove you're spot on. Shelby Foote used the saying in at least a couple of things he wrote from what I can see online, and, as I say, he uses the term (which I misheard as "hooked Adams") in at least two or three of his interviews I've watched on YouTube. I can't say that I've ever heard of the saying myself, but this is surely the correct answer. Thanks, Farrar (and everyone else who replied to my post trying to help).
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Post by Confessor on Mar 14, 2022 20:36:24 GMT -5
Confessor, I'll bet what you probably heard was really "hooked atoms." It's a saying that's derived form a French phrase, and loosely translated it means to have great chemistry with someone, be on the same wavelength, etc. I'd like to think that British folks could understand most forms of English, but then again I've been to the East End of London and also to Birmingham, and those experiences totally ruin my theory... (I'm jesting, Confessor !) In a similar fashion, drop a native Parisian off the back of a truck in the middle of the Cajun region of Louisiana, and linguistically he'll be as lost as a little lamb. Cajun French is like its own language due to the use of so many borrowed Spanish and English words.
In the South they couldn't even understand my name! I'd say "Paul" and folks would look at me very confused and ask, "your name is Pool?"..."or Pull?". Then I'd say, "no, like Paul McCartney" and they'd be like, "Oh... Pawl".
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Post by tartanphantom on Mar 14, 2022 20:51:12 GMT -5
I'd like to think that British folks could understand most forms of English, but then again I've been to the East End of London and also to Birmingham, and those experiences totally ruin my theory... (I'm jesting, Confessor !) In a similar fashion, drop a native Parisian off the back of a truck in the middle of the Cajun region of Louisiana, and linguistically he'll be as lost as a little lamb. Cajun French is like its own language due to the use of so many borrowed Spanish and English words.
In the South they couldn't even understand my name! I'd say "Paul" and folks would look at me very confused and ask, "your name is Pool?"..."or Pull?". Then I'd say, "no, like Paul McCartney" and they'd be like, "Oh... Pawl".
So if someone said "Cranberry sauce", they'd think it was "I buried Paul".
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Post by codystarbuck on Mar 14, 2022 22:55:41 GMT -5
I'd like to think that British folks could understand most forms of English, but then again I've been to the East End of London and also to Birmingham, and those experiences totally ruin my theory... (I'm jesting, Confessor !) In a similar fashion, drop a native Parisian off the back of a truck in the middle of the Cajun region of Louisiana, and linguistically he'll be as lost as a little lamb. Cajun French is like its own language due to the use of so many borrowed Spanish and English words.
In the South they couldn't even understand my name! I'd say "Paul" and folks would look at me very confused and ask, "your name is Pool?"..."or Pull?". Then I'd say, "no, like Paul McCartney" and they'd be like, "Oh... Pawl". See, for the South, you have to have two names, like Paul Bob, or Johnny Paul. Funny enough, my parents ended up moving to South Carolina, after my dad retired from teaching (influenced by my mom taking a job down there). My dad wasn't ready to sit around an whittle; so, he went looking for a job to supplement his pension. My dad grew up on a farm in Southern Illinois, near the Indiana border, and not too far from the Kentucky border. The people in that region tend to have country accents, which are pretty similar to those in Kentucky (same for southern Indiana) and have similar sounds to other Southern accents. My dad's accent was levelled by years in Central Illinois, where I grew up. However, if we were visiting my grandparents for more than a weekend, you could hear my dad's accent start slipping back. Down in Charleston, SC, he sounded more Southern than Northern or Midwestern. He went on one interview for a job and the interviewer made remarks about "Yankees, coming down here and taking our jobs...", not realizing my dad was a Yankee and not happy with the sentiment. He didn't say anything to the guy, but took another job that came up, instead of that one. Most people there had no idea he was from Illinois. My cousin, Chuck, who still lives where my dad grew up, has a twang that would be right at home on The Andy Griffith Show, next to Gomer and Earnest T Bass. His two nieces, who live in Tennessee, find it comical (I think it is more his way of telling a story and his sense of humor, than his twang). His brother, Steve, is not quite so twangy (same for his sister, Susan). After 40+ years of British tv on PBS and assorted movies, I'd be able to get "Paul," unless it was in a Geordie accent. Then it would depend on how fast you spoke. If you spoke like John Bishop, I'd probably get one word in three. (although he is a Scouser and I can usually get everything there)
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Post by tartanphantom on Mar 14, 2022 23:49:44 GMT -5
In the South they couldn't even understand my name! I'd say "Paul" and folks would look at me very confused and ask, "your name is Pool?"..."or Pull?". Then I'd say, "no, like Paul McCartney" and they'd be like, "Oh... Pawl". See, for the South, you have to have two names, like Paul Bob, or Johnny Paul. Funny enough, my parents ended up moving to South Carolina, after my dad retired from teaching (influenced by my mom taking a job down there). My dad wasn't ready to sit around an whittle; so, he went looking for a job to supplement his pension. My dad grew up on a farm in Southern Illinois, near the Indiana border, and not too far from the Kentucky border. The people in that region tend to have country accents, which are pretty similar to those in Kentucky (same for southern Indiana) and have similar sounds to other Southern accents. My dad's accent was levelled by years in Central Illinois, where I grew up. However, if we were visiting my grandparents for more than a weekend, you could hear my dad's accent start slipping back. Down in Charleston, SC, he sounded more Southern than Northern or Midwestern. He went on one interview for a job and the interviewer made remarks about "Yankees, coming down here and taking our jobs...", not realizing my dad was a Yankee and not happy with the sentiment. He didn't say anything to the guy, but took another job that came up, instead of that one. Most people there had no idea he was from Illinois. My cousin, Chuck, who still lives where my dad grew up, has a twang that would be right at home on The Andy Griffith Show, next to Gomer and Earnest T Bass. His two nieces, who live in Tennessee, find it comical (I think it is more his way of telling a story and his sense of humor, than his twang). His brother, Steve, is not quite so twangy (same for his sister, Susan). I know that I have some twang as well, it comes with the territory and almost 60 years of living in the south (apart from my first three years of elementary school, when I lived in Berkeley Heights NJ). Even so, I know a lot of people with much deeper "country" accents than mine. Those CCF'ers who have been on Zoom meetings can probably attest to this. Nevertheless, I think that having lived in several different southern states plus my short stint in yankee-land during my formative years has tempered my accent and made it "generically southern" instead of specifically "local colloquial". Mine is probably more recognizable as southern through flattening my "I's" and slightly drawing out my "Ah's", combined with my "southernisms" in my general metaphors, similes and southern exclamations.
In other words, people can generally tell that I'm from the south, but they can't usually pinpoint exactly "from where".
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Post by Deleted on Mar 15, 2022 20:29:42 GMT -5
I took a chance ordering something for my stamp collection from Australia, because I know postal services are still out of whack.
It was posted Nov 11, 2021 and got to my Florida address 4 days ago....4 months to arrive, which makes me wonder if it was sent by sea-mail instead.
I thought it was lost, wasn't going to blame the sender, and was a bit disheartened thinking it went missing but the package arrived. Some one of a kind frankings from the Falkland Islands. Really happy....
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Post by Mormel on Mar 16, 2022 5:13:01 GMT -5
Today I voted in the municipality council elections, I had the choice between candidates of 6 political parties, which for Dutch standards is very few.
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Post by The Captain on Mar 16, 2022 6:21:32 GMT -5
Today I voted in the municipality council elections, I had the choice between candidates of 6 political parties, which for Dutch standards is very few. Must be nice. Where I live, I have the option of voting for “the party that is predetermined to win because of gerrymandering” or “the party that is predetermined to lose because of gerrymandering”. There is the occasional candidate from some fringe party that falls into the “how the hell did this man/woman get enough signatures to even appear on the ballot” category. American politics are the worst, outside of a dictatorship obviously. It’s why public engagement is so low in many places. Why bother voting when the candidates from the party you support have virtually zero chance of winning?
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Post by Deleted on Mar 16, 2022 8:16:09 GMT -5
Why bother voting when the candidates from the party you support have virtually zero chance of winning? Sounds like the WWE’s Royal Rumble.
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Post by impulse on Mar 16, 2022 8:58:12 GMT -5
Today I voted in the municipality council elections, I had the choice between candidates of 6 political parties, which for Dutch standards is very few. Must be nice. Where I live, I have the option of voting for “the party that is predetermined to win because of gerrymandering” or “the party that is predetermined to lose because of gerrymandering”. There is the occasional candidate from some fringe party that falls into the “how the hell did this man/woman get enough signatures to even appear on the ballot” category. American politics are the worst, outside of a dictatorship obviously. It’s why public engagement is so low in many places. Why bother voting when the candidates from the party you support have virtually zero chance of winning? Too many self-interested politicians would never let this happen, but I wish we'd lose first-past-the-post voting and go to ranked choice so we could actually vote for who we think is truly the best and not have to kneecap our desires right out the gate by choosing the most electable least-bad candidate. But then all the bad ones in office would never get reelected, so why would they ever approve that? Can we just put Weird Al in charge of everything for a year? It would be nice, funny, and there would be lots of food. Unrelated, getting new glasses sucks when you have a serious astigmatism. My eyes always rebel and make the transition miserable. I am seeing worse now in my new better pair than I was with my old ones, and I couldn't see shit beyond 5 feet before. It was crystal clear the first day, too, which is frustrating. I know it takes time, but it would be nice for once in my life to be able to just open my eyes and see and not have to even think about my eyes or glasses. Oh, well.
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Post by Mormel on Mar 16, 2022 14:52:56 GMT -5
Today I voted in the municipality council elections, I had the choice between candidates of 6 political parties, which for Dutch standards is very few. Must be nice. Where I live, I have the option of voting for “the party that is predetermined to win because of gerrymandering” or “the party that is predetermined to lose because of gerrymandering”. There is the occasional candidate from some fringe party that falls into the “how the hell did this man/woman get enough signatures to even appear on the ballot” category. American politics are the worst, outside of a dictatorship obviously. It’s why public engagement is so low in many places. Why bother voting when the candidates from the party you support have virtually zero chance of winning? Sadly our political system is far from ideal either. We've only just settled on the formation of a cabinet 9 months after last year's parliamentary elections. That's the longest formation period for us in post-WW2 history. It's all the more embarrassing because we needed clear and solid leadership in the middle of the covid crisis, and we were stuck with a demissionary cabinet for most of 2021. The largest parties just couldn't settle on a coalition for all this time.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 16, 2022 15:48:42 GMT -5
well. .he's home and we've been arguing like cat & dog (or an old married couple) for the last hour. so I guess things are back to "normal" 😛
the Doctors recommended he stay on Oxygen for a while, and once Nick heard that he absolutely refused. (during the "walking test" his O2 level was 87 and they were concerned. so that added a couple of hours onto the release from Hospital process this afternoon, since several folks came in to talk to him about why having the Oxygen tank at home "just in case" is a really good idea (he was in the ER for a collapsed lung).
no go. He was adamant. so no Oxygen, tho he did agree to the new scripts for Iron suppliments and a stool softener.
oh, and I did insist on him getting a Pulse Oximeter when I went to get his meds a little while ago.
So there's that at least.
1st reading on that came back 96, so that's good.
thanks to everyone for the concern!
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Post by codystarbuck on Mar 16, 2022 21:42:50 GMT -5
well. .he's home and we've been arguing like cat & dog (or an old married couple) for the last hour. so I guess things are back to "normal" 😛 the Doctors recommended he stay on Oxygen for a while, and once Nick heard that he absolutely refused. (during the "walking test" his O2 level was 87 and they were concerned. so that added a couple of hours onto the release from Hospital process this afternoon, since several folks came in to talk to him about why having the Oxygen tank at home "just in case" is a really good idea (he was in the ER for a collapsed lung). no go. He was adamant. so no Oxygen, tho he did agree to the new scripts for Iron suppliments and a stool softener. oh, and I did insist on him getting a Pulse Oximeter when I went to get his meds a little while ago. So there's that at least. 1st reading on that came back 96, so that's good. thanks to everyone for the concern! Glad to hear it. The oxygen thing is no joke, though. My father, after a physical showed some scarring in his lung tissues, was diagnosed with a dormant form of pulmonary fibrosis. No idea how it developed, as he wasn't a smoker, was a school teacher; but, they don't really know what causes it. Could have been something he was exposed to in the military (he was a mechanic on B-36 engines), could have been something like asbestos in a classroom, could have been something like pesticides, on the farm. Anyway, he didn't have a problem until he was having an outpatient procedure to install a stent, to relieve an iliac aneurism, and his lung collapsed. It seemed like that incident kick-started the fibrosis and he started to have breathing problems. At first, he was using an inhaler; but, it quickly became an oxygen bottle, then hospitalization and a modified C-pap, then death. That all happened within about 6-8 months. I hope your partner continues to improve and maybe tell him that it's easier to follow a doctor's advice than to have to get treatment, again. Take care.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 20, 2022 14:31:54 GMT -5
Happy Vernal Equinox.
Spring is here for those of us that reside in the Northern Hemisphere. Winter is coming for those in the southern...
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